Category: PHENOM Blog
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Road Trip: PHENOM GoesTo Montreal
Last year, hundreds of thousands of students throughout Quebec were on strike for much of the year in a fight against tuition increases. The strike succeeded in reversing the increase, […]
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EducateMA
Neil MacInnes-Barker has been a busy guy since he served as Student Government President at UMass Boston. All those speakers on Advocacy Day 2013 were flanked by a poster based […]
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Celebrating a Sea Change
Any program of dramatic change sounds preposterous when first proposed, especially when it runs up against a decades-long status quo. But change is the only constant, and you should never […]
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Legislature Takes on Student Debt
By Anastasia Wilson In June, the Massachusetts legislature took a step to investigate student debt by creating a Subcommittee on Student Debt as part of the Joint Committee on […]
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PHENOM Helps Win State Funding and Fee Freeze
By Ken Haar, Westfield State University In this year’s budget battle, the legislature and the governor dramatically reversed a decades-long trend of reducing spending on public higher education. This […]
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A Well-Educated Workforce is Key to State Prosperity
This is a new report co-authored by Noah Berger from the Mass. Budget and Policy Center. It demonstrates that a sta te’s best economic development strategy is providing expanded access […]
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Union Leader Terminated at UMass Lowell – Please Take Action
Recently, Ellen Martins, a 28-year adjunct faculty member of the Music Department at UMass Lowell, and president of her union, received notification that her contract will not be renewed for […]
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Innovative Legislation in Oregon
HB 3472 has been passed unanimously by the Oregon Legislature. It would radically alter how students would pay for college. Called “Pay It Forward”, it would eliminate tuition, fees, and […]
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State Budget Ensures Fee Freezes!
Massachusetts has taken an important step that should be a model for the rest of the country. Shortly after the Legislature’s Conference Committee released a budget that incorporates the House’s […]
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Marriage Equality: Impact on Financial Aid
For some students, the Supreme Court ruling striking down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) will mean more financial aid; but for others, it will mean less. Including same-sex spouses’ […]